Whitehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. Farmhouse.
Whitehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-parapet-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whitehouse Farmhouse, Shop Lane, Hethersett
- OS grid reference
- TG 161 053
- Coordinates
- 52.6027, 1.19033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehouse Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and has a pantile roof. The dwelling on the right features a rear wing with renewed encasing walls and windows that are not of special interest. Its roof line is slightly higher, possibly indicating it has been renewed, and there is a central stack that is partly within the southeast dwelling.
The left dwelling (southeast) has two bays, is two storeys high with an attic, and includes a platband and gable parapet. It has an internal stack at the left end and a central doorway. The ground floor features a 2-light casement window to the left under a segmental arch and a 2-light 20th-century steel casement window to the right. The first floor has two 3-light casements. The left gable has a plinth, platband, and eaves band, with an inserted single light window on the first floor. The rear side has a platband, with the first bay containing a small casement window to the ground floor left and a 3-light casement to the right, while the first floor has a 2-light casement.
There is a 1½ storey wing that projects forward to bay 2, featuring brick tumbling in and a later parapet on the gable. It has a dormer and various openings to the northeast, with 2 and 3-light casements on the southeast side. Inside, the layout consists of two cells with a central cross passage, featuring stopped joists and a tie to the second cell. The first floor has massive stopped ties, and the roof is constructed with a two-tiered design that includes butt purlins. The rear wing also has a two-tier roof with butt purlins and collars.
Local climate
Whitehouse Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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